Re: tunables overridability patch vs release

"Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:09:19 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Organization	Gentoo Linux
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Am Dienstag, 7. Juli 2026, 06:04:39 Japanische Normalzeit schrieb Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
> 
> On 06/07/26 17:46, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > Re: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/[email protected]/
> > 
> > So I originally left this bit out intentionally because (1) I thought
> > it would be hard, (2) it wasn't needed by most of the folks waiting
> > for the tunables work, and (3) I didn't expect the patch set to land
> > so close to a release.
> > 
> > However, tunables is in and it's already hit the press[*], including
> > the bit about overridability, because I implemented the parser side of
> > this already (needed by the AT_SECURE parts).  The patch turned out to
> > be fairly simple but still needs a reviewed-by.
> > 
> > Thus, I would like to consider this patch as "desirable" for this
> > release.  It was posted before the freeze, one could consider it a
> > bugfix and/or continuation of the main tunables patches, or we could
> > delay it and backport it later.
> > 
> > [*] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-System-Tunables
> > 
> 
> I think this should be a release blocker because it does fix some issues.
> Andreas Schwab has already approved, and I only have a small comment.

Makes sense. Adding it there.

> 
> As a side-note, I am plan send some additional fixes to the system-wide
> tunables that I missed on my previous reviews (I was about to re-start
> it and saw that Arjun has already approved them).  Some of them are
> harderning, one it a performance optimization, and another is semantic
> fix for the old environment variables.
> 
> Since this is a new features, so I think we should *not* release with some
> missing fixes or proper defined semantic.
> 


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